Best of the Rest

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Dominion’s Cove Point LNG project now 89% done; Pilgrim Pipeline foes try to get law passed against it; WNF lease sales generate $1.75M for OH communities–so far; FirstEnergy nuke hearings in OH House suspended; Philly refineries hit hard times, again; court suspends litigation over EPA methane rule; Halliburton says company hiking prices “significantly”; after $500B and four decades, Energy Dept. doesn’t have much to show; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Fri, May 19, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Dead-end NY can’t create any jobs Upstate following frack ban; big air quality improvements coming to OH, thx to fracking; oil production in Utica shows modest increase; Air Products may shut down Luzerne County LNG manufacturing plant; Bob Huggins to highlight Shale Crescent USA event; WV nixes enviro group’s appeal of Mountain Valley pipe permit; Virginia gov targets power plant emissions; change at the top of Halliburton; former FERC attorneys say it’s time to drop NAVs; US shale oil will grow, even at $40/barrel; Trinidad production drops 8% in March; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Thu, May 18, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: FirstEnergy continues quest to become re-regulated; Belmont County holds mock well pad spill exercise; NEXUS Pipeline donates $50K to Stark State; Mt. Pleasant finds fracktivist testimony “not credible”; DTE quest to cut carbon emissions includes ramp up in natgas; pipelines are not scary; big data comes to O&G; US shale drillers have NOT yet won the war against OPEC; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Wed, May 17, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Utica Shale adds another rig, Marcellus remains steady; heavy equipment apprentices train in PA; Cheniere offers $1 billion in notes; 3 important deadlines in Trump energy plan; concerns about reliability of natgas for electric generation overblown; OPEC needs to cut more; Mexico increasing US imports of natgas; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Tue, May 16, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Marcellus/Utica takeaway capacity to the East; Antero donates money to Monroe County, OH EMA; fracking topic of May 16 forum in Cleveland; Scranton rail trail closed while pipeline gets installed; conventional o&g production bigger than you may think; Range Resources hits 10 year mark in Southpointe, PA; America’s natgas export machine cranks up; Trump strikes deal to export more natgas to China; Cheniere in talks to ship more LNG to China; ex-CIA guy says we need to “wean” Europe off Russian natgas; OPEC begs U.S. shale to stop pumping so much oil; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Mon, May 15, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Can Southeast infrastructure handle Southeast demand growth?; why more coal, oil and natgas investments are needed; coal and nuke plants think Trump just saved their bacon; energy revolutions hidden in plain sight; Senate GOP defections sink effort to repeal BLM venting, flaring rule; US shale spending dwarf competition; Sabine Pass exports rise; UK to become third world country?…considers nationalizing energy companies & frack ban; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Fri, May 12, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: NY banned fracking, then spends $95M to buy natgas buses; Wayne Natl Forest lawsuit prime example of “litigious battles to drive regulation”; Johnson Controls goes after o&g market with new testing lab; PA Dems now want severance tax to fund environmental conservation; Conn. House passes permanent ban on fracking waste–a state where there is none; RINO John McCain deserts GOP again, BLM methane rule stays; EIA revises US gas output higher in 2017; Tellurian makes progress on Driftwood LNG; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Thu, May 11, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Cove Point and the Atlantic Seaboard – in search of gas; Rice Energy considers selling part of midstream unit; legal battles continue in OH over oil & gas rights; five pipe projects in the mix in southeast OH; three reasons to invest in OH gas-fired power; CONSOL sees potential in the Utica where others don’t; officials should put added focus on WV cracker project; 18 protesters arrested for blocking pipeline project in Mass.; shale drillers are outspending the world by $84B; idiotic cities voting to cut their nose off by adopting resolutions to use 100% renewable energy; EOG uses science to boost production; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Wed, May 10, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Update on Marcellus/Utia pipeline takeaway projects; rig count declines in PA, WV last week; NYS energy policy – nukes yes, pipelines no; RINO Sen. Portman on the fence re Obama methane rule; signs of drilling industry coming back in PA; EPA drains some of the swamp – dismisses half of scientific advisers on key board; Chesapeake ‘on the ramp’ to growth; Congress gears up for nuclear subsidy showdown; Russia-U.S. rivalry for natgas; and more! Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Tue, May 9, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: How Delaware Riverkeeper funders live (like kings); Tokyo Gas invests in U.S. shale player Castleton Resources; anti-pipeliners harming the environment they profess to protect; how much natgas comes from fracking?; Pruitt recuses himself from several lawsuits against EPA; Chesapeake – the good and the ugly; Russia suspends LPG exports to Ukraine – again; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Mon, May 8, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Shell nears completion of tree planting around cracker site; WV gas tax revenue on the increase; federal oil and gas leases can boost government revenue; nuclear and petroleum battle over subsidies; the future for Phillips 66 is pipelines and chemicals; is petchem industry approaching max capacity; OPEC’s oil price gains wiped out by shale boom; shale producer using artificial intelligence; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Fri, May 5, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: FERC to complete EA for Dominion’s Eastern Market Access by mid-June; Range recalls ‘incredibly creative solution’ for Marcellus/Utica ‘problem’; coal-fired plants in East threatened by gas-fired plants; LNG export terminal on the Chesapeake Bay; 9 permits issued in OH Utica last week; Thornbury stands by decision to issue ME2 permits; ME2 work begins in Lower Swatara; the uncivil story of how fracking opposition arises; snow in Cali suppresses gas prices in Texas; midstream organization asks EPA to withdraw TRI proposal; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Thu, May 4, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Vector Pipeline preps for Rover connection; Dominion set for Cove Point LNG pipeline maintenance; Mass. AG cuddles with McKibben; study says selling US LNG abroad will create 136K jobs here at home; pipeline companies push back on Trump directive to “buy American”; carbon intensity; new natgas engines for trucks; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Tue, May 2, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Mariner East 2 constructions begins in Cumberland County, PA; Atlantic Sunrise Pipe pays grants for pool upgrades, fire equipment; Cecil Twp holding public hearing on Range Resources well pad plan; one year after pipeline explosion in Salem Township; WV property owners meet ahead of Supreme Court case re post-production expenses; Trump signs order to allow offshore drilling; Alliance pipeline wants to expand from Western Canada to Chicago; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Mon, May 1, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Gas-focused E&Ps double down on spending in the Marcellus/Utica; Mountain Valley Pipeline plans moving forward, FERC approval due by June 23; is northeast natgas market no longer pipeline constrained?; FERC wants more info from Cove Point LNG; ODNR issues 7 Utica permits, OH rig count at 22; Pitt prof tells Beaver County air quaality will suffer from Shell cracker; natgas rigs up by 1 in PA; WV businesses anticipate next oil & gas boom; shale is crushing solar; Trump’s first 100 days in the energy sector; oops, warmists just lost the Antarctic peninsula – now cooling; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Fri, Apr 28, 2017”

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading. In today’s lineup: Golden Pass LNG gets DOE clearance to export; LNG is all the rage in the Trump administration; the era of LNG oversupply; report shows pipelines still safest mode of transport; US Supreme Court won’t hear Chesapeake Energy bond case; frac sand company – reaching crescendo later this year; American tech helps the oil industry; and more!
Read More “Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Wed, Apr 26, 2017”